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. 2026 May 19;16(10):1545. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics16101545
Abbreviation Full form
ACE Angiotensin-converting enzyme
AI Artificial intelligence
ARB Angiotensin receptor blocker
AUC Area under the curve
BMI Body mass index
BNP B-type natriuretic peptide
BUN Blood urea nitrogen
cGMP Cyclic guanosine monophosphate
CNN Convolutional neural network
CV Cardiovascular
ECG Electrocardiogram
ECV Extracellular volume
eGFR Estimated glomerular filtration rate
EHR Electronic health record
ESC European Society of Cardiology
FDA Food and Drug Administration
GA-KPLS Genetic algorithm-optimized kernel
partial least squares
GDF-15 Growth/differentiation factor-15
GLS Global longitudinal strain
H2FPEF Heavy, Hypertensive, Atrial Fibrillation,
Pulmonary Hypertension, Elder,
Filling Pressure Score
HF Heart failure
HFA-PEFF Heart Failure Association
Pre-test Assessment,
Echocardiography, Functional Testing,
Final Etiology
HFmrEF Heart failure with mildly reduced
ejection fraction
HFpEF Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
HFrEF Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
IDI Integrated discrimination improvement
KCCQ Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire
LASSO Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator
LAVI Left atrial volume index
LGE Late gadolinium enhancement
LightGBM Light gradient boosting machine
LIME Local interpretable model-agnostic explanations
LVEF Left ventricular ejection fraction
MAGGIC Meta-Analysis Global Group in
Chronic Heart Failure
ML Machine learning
MMP Matrix metalloproteinase
MRA Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
NRI Net reclassification improvement
NT-proBNP N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide
PASP Pulmonary artery systolic pressure
RNN Recurrent neural network
SHAP SHapley Additive exPlanations
SGLT2 Sodium–glucose cotransporter-2
SMOTE Synthetic minority oversampling technique
SVM Support vector machine
TEER Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair
TIMP Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase
TNFα Tumor necrosis factor alpha
TOPCAT Treatment of Preserved
Cardiac Function Heart Failure with
an Aldosterone Antagonist Trial
TRIPOD Transparent Reporting of
a Multivariable Prediction
Model for Individual Prognosis or Diagnosis
TRV Tricuspid regurgitation velocity
XGBoost Extreme gradient boosting